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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2022 8:06 am    Post subject: the coming election.... Reply with quote

wow oh wow, this one has to have some right wingers worried. Is this athe best indicator of what is coming? Despite what the right wing unprecedented funding and corporate support including oil companies and countries? any explanation from the right on how this could have happened, a district that was 57-60 percent trump and right winger, now in a special election puts a huge margin behind a dem to rid us of a right winger.

As we know trump top ME advisor received 1.5 billion dollars in political money in 2016, which was more money than Hillary spent when she had more votes than Trump. again an oil country hates the dems so much that just this one country gave trump guy 1.5 billion to stop dems. and now we know another oil country gave at least recently 2 billion to trumps son in law and 1.5 billion to trumps financial guy. That is the tip of the iceberg for oil to repugnants alone.

Yet we see again in Michigan in a strong trump district voting out the right wingers. so is this how it is going to go even with the billions that have been fueling the right wingers because of the supreme courts allowing dark foreign and oil money to flow to USA hate politics.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095704/-Dems-win-a-HUGE-upset-in-Michigan-House-special-election?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended


Dems win a HUGE upset in Michigan House special election


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Wonderful news from here in West Michigan:


Collins and Murkowski are shocked—SHOCKED!—that Supreme Court nominees lied to them
The previous Republican incumbent, now-Sen. Mark Huizenga, won his three races with over 60% of the vote. Donald Trump got 57% in the district in 2020. The district includes the cities of Cedar Springs, Grandville, Rockford, and Walker (where Glanville is a city commissioner), plus six townships.

Glanville’s win, combined with Jeff Pepper’s special election win in the solidly blue 15th district, gives the Democrats 53 House seats — the most since 2010.

Glanville’s win tonight means she’ll serve the remaining eight months of Huizenga’s term and be able to serve three full terms after that. Given Michigan’s strict term limits, those extra eight months will be valuable for Glanville and her constituents.

This fall, Glanville will run in the new 84th district, which is much more favorable to Democrats than the district she won tonight.


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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2023 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

not a good showing for right wingers in Florida in ultra right wing Jacksonville....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-democrats-flip-the-jacksonville-mayor-s-office-in-a-major-upset/ar-AA1bhKiV?cvid=b932ca8485014b98adf66b687790c22e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=11

Florida Democrats flip the Jacksonville mayor’s office in a major upset


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Democrat Donna Deegan won the Jacksonville mayoral race Tuesday night, a shocking upset that hands Florida Democrats a major shot of energy less than six months after they were trounced in the 2022 midterms and considered left for dead by the national party.

Deegan came into Election Day as the decided underdog against Republican Daniel Davis, who is the head of the city’s chamber of commerce and had a significant fundraising advantage. He was endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, but that support was lukewarm. The governor did not do events with Davis or put his political muscle behind his candidacy.

With all of the city’s 186 precincts reporting, Deegan had a 52-48 advantage over Davis, who was vying to replace current Republican Mayor Lenny Curry and was term-limited.

“Everyone said it could not be done in Jacksonville, Florida,” Deegan said, according to video of her victory speech. “We did it because we brought the people inside.”

The city of Jacksonville's official Twitter account sent a tweet congratulating Deegan Tuesday night, writing, "We look forward to your leadership and vision as you help guide our City into the future."

In his concession speech, Davis called on everyone to "come together now and move our city forward," according to the site Florida Politics.

Deegan is a former TV anchor in the city with significant name recognition. After leaving TV, she went on to found a nonprofit that focuses on breast cancer research. She will become the city's first female mayor.


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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2023 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colorado-republicans-lose-conservative-stronghold-they-ve-held-for-45-years/ar-AA1biC8v?cvid=638e9e6477c144b7b9071338b29b73e6&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=19

Colorado Republicans Lose Conservative Stronghold They've Held for 45 Years


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Independent candidate Yemi Mobolade triumphed in Colorado Springs' mayor race against veteran Republican Wayne Williams during the May 16 runoff, winning a conservative stronghold that the GOP had held for 45 years.

Mobolade, a small business owner and former economic development executive for the city, managed to defeat City Council member Williams, a well-known face of Colorado Republican politics, becoming the city's first elected Black mayor. Leon Young previously served as interim mayor for several months in 1997 but wasn't elected to the role.

The race in Colorado Springs, an hour's drive south of Denver, is officially the first big mayoral race of the year for the state. Colorado Springs is one of three major Colorado cities electing a mayor this year, together with Denver, which held the race on April 4 but went on to a runoff scheduled for June 6, and Aurora, which will hold the race on November 7.

The Nigerian-born politician, who moved to Colorado Springs in 2010 and co-founded two popular restaurants in the city, received 57 percent of the vote as of 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, whereas Williams trailed him with 43 percent. Fifteen minutes later, Williams conceded to his rival. The second batch of results has left the distance between the two candidates unchanged.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-judge-hands-joe-biden-big-win/ar-BB1iciZE?cvid=6866530b020340dca1b1fe6311f5bd80&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=13&sc=shoreline

Texas Judge Hands Joe Biden Big Win


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Afederal judge in Austin, Texas, has thrown out a lawsuit brought by pharmaceutical industry bodies challenging a new program that allows the government to negotiate prices for some expensive drugs under Medicare.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra, appointed by Ronald Reagan, sided with the Biden administration in dismissing a lawsuit by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) group and two others that claimed the program was unconstitutional.


PhRMA said it was "disappointed" with the ruling, while the Biden administration still faces other legal challenges to the program in other courts.

Under the initiative, passed under the Inflation Reduction Act, the Department of Health and Human Services is directed to seek lower fixed prices for certain drugs, saving government funds on serving Medicare patients.
But pharmaceutical companies that refuse to participate in the scheme would either have to pay large fines or withdraw from Medicare—which covers 66 million, mostly older, Americans who account for a large share of prescription spending.

PhRMA, the Global Colon Cancer Association (GCCA) and the National Infusion Center Association (NICA) had argued that the program would unconstitutionally levy excessive fines, which could range from over 185 percent to 1,900 percent of a drug's price depending on the duration of noncompliance and would be based on the drug's total sales including those beyond Medicare.

While Ezra had agreed that the program could possibly do harm to the companies in earlier rulings, he granted the government's motion to dismiss on Monday because the claims brought against it arose under the Medicare Act—meaning they could only be heard by a court after an administrative review.

"We are disappointed with the court's decision, which does not address the merits of our lawsuit, and we are weighing our next legal steps," PhRMA spokesperson Nicole Longo told Reuters following the ruling.

Newsweek approached GCCA and NICA via email for comment on Tuesday.

The ruling marked a further victory for the Biden administration in its ongoing defense of the program, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will save $25 billion a year by 2031.

In September, another judge in Ohio declined to block the law after a lawsuit was brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce business lobby group.

But several other lawsuits, brought by large pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, remain and could end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, in January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the state of Florida to import prescription drugs from Canada due to the high price of drugs in America, which as of 2018 were on average 256 percent more than in 32 comparable countries.

While pharmaceutical representative bodies like PhRMA questioned the safety of the move, experts suggested the policy was a blow to American pharmaceutical companies' hold on the U.S. medicines market and could pave the way for other states to follow suit.

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